U.S. History--The Progressive Era, 1890-1921 (nonfiction)
1. 
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by:
Edmund Morris
4.23 avg rating — 59,126 ratings 
3. 
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
by:
Dan Abrams
3.72 avg rating — 1,066 ratings 4. 
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,622 ratings
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The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Tunes of the Twenties and All That Jazz
by:
Robert Rawlins
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 5. 
The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870–1940
by:
Jeremy C. Young
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 5. 
Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America
by:
Cecelia Tichi
3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power 3.93 avg rating — 175 ratings
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More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
by:
Thai Jones
3.87 avg rating — 114 ratings 12. 
The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession 3.60 avg rating — 4,251 ratings
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
by:
James D. Bradley
3.62 avg rating — 4,037 ratings 16. 
Boss Cox’s Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive Era
by:
Zane L. Miller
3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings 16. 
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by:
Candice Millard
4.21 avg rating — 74,673 ratings 18. 
America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation
by:
Jim Rasenberger
3.84 avg rating — 426 ratings 18. 
History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times 3.63 avg rating — 122 ratings
18. 
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
by:
Justin Kaplan
3.39 avg rating — 1,650 ratings 
21. 
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
by:
Jonathan M. Katz
4.24 avg rating — 1,863 ratings 
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The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
24. 
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
by:
Paula Uruburu
3.74 avg rating — 3,061 ratings 
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New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era
by:
Daniel Czitrom
3.46 avg rating — 52 ratings 27. 
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America
by:
Les Standiford
3.89 avg rating — 2,671 ratings 
30. 
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era 4.07 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
by:
Jill Jonnes
4.07 avg rating — 2,652 ratings 33. 
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by:
Erik Larson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,791 ratings 33. 
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Documentary Reader
by:
William A. Link
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 35. 
Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
by:
Michael Wolraich
4.07 avg rating — 175 ratings 
39. 
An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business
by:
Gerard Helferich
3.61 avg rating — 77 ratings 40. 
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
by:
Stephen Kinzer
3.95 avg rating — 1,361 ratings 41. 
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
by:
Mark Lee Gardner
4.05 avg rating — 934 ratings 42. 
Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, And The Campaign Of 1912
by:
Gerard Helferich
3.80 avg rating — 194 ratings 43. 
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by:
Candice Millard
4.21 avg rating — 74,673 ratings 47. 
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
by:
Douglas Brinkley
4.07 avg rating — 2,354 ratings 48. 
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by:
Edmund Morris
4.23 avg rating — 59,126 ratings 49. 
Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
by:
Ivan Musicant
3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings 50. 
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The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
by:
Karl Rove
3.59 avg rating — 664 ratings 53. 
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
by:
Scott Miller
3.95 avg rating — 4,679 ratings 54. 
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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
by:
Evan Thomas
3.82 avg rating — 1,588 ratings 
59. 
The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper, 1898-1911 4.32 avg rating — 60 ratings
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A Museum of Wonders: And What the Young Folks Saw There, Explained in Many Pictures 1.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Drawn & Quartered: The History of American Political Cartoons
by:
Stephen Hess
4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings 63. 
The Ungentlemanly Art: A History of American Political Cartoons,
by:
Stephen Hess
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 64. 
The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons from 1913-1940
by:
Nell Brinkley
4.37 avg rating — 102 ratings 
67. 
The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. 1: 1905-1907
by:
Winsor McCay
4.42 avg rating — 180 ratings 68. 
The Yellow Kid: A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics
by:
R.F. Outcault
3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings 
70. 
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
by:
Amy Louise Wood
3.98 avg rating — 100 ratings 
72. 
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
by:
Steve Oney
4.07 avg rating — 474 ratings 73. 
What Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose
by:
Edwin T. Arnold
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings 
75. 
The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
by:
Aldon D. Morris
4.38 avg rating — 213 ratings 
78. 
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.36 avg rating — 355 ratings 
82. 
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
by:
Louis R. Harlan
3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings 83. 
85. 
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.69 avg rating — 185 ratings
87. 
The History of the Standard Oil Company (Unexpurgated Edition)
by:
Ida Tarbell
3.91 avg rating — 246 ratings 88. 
Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
by:
Peter B. Doran
4.15 avg rating — 665 ratings 
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Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice 4.31 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 3.86 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series) 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
97. 
The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
by:
William M. Adler
4.05 avg rating — 328 ratings 98. 
The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
by:
Robert Shogan
3.90 avg rating — 311 ratings 99. 
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
by:
James R. Green
4.33 avg rating — 569 ratings 100. 